Opening symphonies out of circles//a more
rounded I writes its experience onto a heart uniting incompatible senses//shared as leaped
and gathered distances |
On a patio in Old Town, a rattle clutched
in her gamboling hand, a child waddles through unmowed grass, each step a loss and
recovery, each an obligation to the difficult whole.
Birds tweeting between riffs of human chatter suggest migrations
of shadows used first in
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Old Town: The Villa de Alburquerque,
founded
February 7, 1706, was to where Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdez, Governor of
the Spanish
Province of New Mexico brought twelve families and a Franciscan friar. "Cuervo
had
broken almost every law regarding the establishment of new settlements. To
begin with, he
displayed remarkable audacity in founding a villa, the highest classification
of Spanish
town, without first consulting his superiors. Secondly, he apparently failed
to file a
communal land grant of four square leagues of land for the |